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Digital edition published in 2017

Digital edition: 978-1-63159-443-4
Softcover edition: 978-1-63159-312-3

Originally listed in Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data as
Schneider, Andy G., author.
The chicken whisperer's guide to keeping chickens : everything you need to know-- and didn't know you needed to know about backyard and urban chickens / Andy G. Schneider and Brigid McCrea.
ISBN: 978-1-59253-728-0 (paperback)
1. Chickens. 2. Urban agriculture.
SF487.S325 2011
  636.5--dc23
  2011017106

Design: carol holtz | holtz design

Cover Images: iStockphoto, main image; inset, middle; & flap; Courtesy of The Chicken Whisperer, inset, left; Rick Bennett, inset, right

Illustrations: Judy Love

Special thanks to Teri Myers, Braided Bower Farm

Appendix on Biosecurity written by:

Megin Nichols, D.V.M., M.P.H., D.A.C.V.P.M.

Laura Burnworth, M.P.H.

Casey Barton Behravesh, M.S., D.V.M., Dr. P.H., D.A.C.V.P.M.